Bug#161603: License issue in libconcurrent-java

2002-10-01 Thread Mark Wielaard
Hi, On Tue, 2002-10-01 at 22:16, Doug Lea wrote: > I'll see if I can get the Sun legal folks to make some kind of > clarification. Any suggestions about what in particular I should ask for? I think the minimal change would be to just ask for changing the word "non-transferable" to "transferable"

Bug#161603: License issue in libconcurrent-java

2002-10-01 Thread Doug Lea
> I had hoped that we could use the earlier work of Professor Lea as basis > for this package since I assumed it was all in the public domain. But if > those classes are based on Suns code we will have to rewrite these from > scratch. That would be utterly stupid; in part because I contributed to

Bug#161603: License issue in libconcurrent-java

2002-10-01 Thread Mark Wielaard
Hi, On Tue, 2002-10-01 at 06:30, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 10:57:47PM -0400, Steven Barker wrote: > > The package will already be going into contrib because several of the > > classes depending on the Java2 Container API. I just don't want it > > to be relegated to non-fre

Bug#161603: License issue in libconcurrent-java

2002-09-30 Thread Branden Robinson
[I hope Mr. Lea doesn't mind the CC.] On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 10:57:47PM -0400, Steven Barker wrote: [snip] > I wrote Prof. Lea and asked if he has permission to distribute these > classes, and how this permission might apply to Debian. He sent me > the text of a license he has signed with Sun: >

Bug#161603: License issue in libconcurrent-java

2002-09-30 Thread Steven Barker
Hello debian-legal, I've got some questions about the legal status of a small portion of a package I'm working on, libconcurrency-java (containing the java package EDU.oswego.cs.dl.util.concurrent). The upstream author, Doug Lea has put all of his code into the public domain. However, a few of t